[Soft framework of the human body]. / Miagkii ostov chelovecheskogo tela.

At the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy, I. M. Sechenov First Medical Institute, Moscow, a group of workers under Academician V. V. Kovanov leadership, have created a complete theory on the soft framework of the human body, investigated morphogenesis of its components, the most important of which--fasciae--form cases for muscles, tegmens for organs and sheaths for blood vessels. Age alterations of the fascial formations stipulate a wide spread of purulent infections in young and old age. Owing to the theory on fascial nodes, which represent a flexible support, pivotal areas in the soft framework of various parts of the human body, it is possible to widen application of local anesthesia and novocain blockade--a pathogenetic method for treating some illnesses. The theory on paravasal structures made it possible to work out various surgical approaches and operative methods for blood vessels, their diseases making a large percent among surgical cases at present.

[Fascial-cellular sheath of the superior mesenteric artery and its branches]. / Fastsial'no-kletchatochnye vlagalishcha verkhnei bryzheechnoi arterii i ee vetvei.

Fascial-adipose tissue sheaths of the superior mesentery artery consist of: a proper fibrous tunic separated by a paravasal fissura from the external layer of the arterial wall; an adipose tissue coupling with vascular and nervous plexus--around the vessels, and a fascial case which isolates the adipose tissue coupling from the surrounding adipose tissue. The fascial case is more dense around the trunk and less dense around the branches of the superior mesentery artery. The work presents the data of the development of the fascial-adipose tissue sheaths and their age-dependent changes which result in a considerable exhaustion of these sheaths at an old age, in deposition of adipose tissue between the fascial plates. The thickness of the fascial-adipose tissue sheath of the superior mesentery artery varies, depending on age, from 5 to 12 mm. It is considerably more developed than similar fascial-adipose tissue sheaths of the celiac trunk and the inferior mesentery artery, is of great applied importance for novocain blockade of the paraarterial nervous plexus.